WWII suicide mission training site in western Japan

WWII suicide mission training site in western Japan

File photo taken on a small island off Shunan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 26, 2015, shows the former site of a training base for Imperial Japanese Navy soldiers who were assigned a suicide mission using crewed torpedoes called "Kaiten" late in World War II.

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